music played today‚ but it would not have come so far if it was not for Louis Armstrong. Armstrong is considered the most important improviser in Jazz (he taught the world to swing) (‘Jazz at Lincoln Center’).His trumpet playing changed the rules of music. Armstrong’s interest in music earned him the title of greatest trumpet/cornet player in American History. And to think it all started with a tin horn. Armstrong‚ full name Louis (“loo-ESS”) Daniel Armstrong‚ was born in Uptown New Orleans‚ Louisiana
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Cosi by Louis Nowra is a play within a play‚ Meta Theatre‚ and is a semi-autobiographical‚ touching and a biting portrayal of human relationships and mental illness. Prior to the 1970s‚ people who suffered from ‘mental disorders’ were sent to mental institutes in order to prevent them from bringing shame onto their families and the community. The ‘illnesses’ ranged from true mental instability‚ such as OCD and schizophrenia‚ to alcoholics and drug abusers. This is what Nowra’s play is based around
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trunks with trianon canvases represented a real revolution for travelling in those days as they combined lightness and storage capacity. (p.2) LV monogram was inspired by the Japanese and Oriental designs of the Victorian age. (p.2) The modern age of Louis Vuitton Expanded its product line by applying the craftwork and design of its leather to small leather goods such as purses and wallets‚ and to its whole luggage line. The monogram canvas was redesigned to fit the new range of products. (p.3) Started
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Louis MacNeice’s empowering poem “Meeting Point” successfully reveals how drastically a romantic relationship can change when two individuals grow apart. Throughout the poem‚ a couple that seems happy suddenly becomes distant which gives the woman a chance to gather her inner courage to let go of the dull relationship and become independent. MacNeice’s use of repetition at the beginning and end of each stanza represents the boundaries that the two partners were stuck between as they continue
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into close contact with Muslims. Through this‚ Europeans learn more than ever before about these Muslims they were in contact with: both positively and negatively. Through Joinville’s account of the sixth and seventh crusades in The Life of Saint Louis‚ we are informed about a few of the things that the crusaders learned from their direct contact with these Muslims‚ or ‘Saracens’ as Joinville calls them. In the beginning of Joinville’s account‚ it seems intriguing how he knows so much about the
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University of Windsor 04-75-498 Strategic Management Louis Vuitton Case Analysis Key Issue Louis Vuitton is a flagship group of LVMH‚ which had double digit growth during 2010 and 2011. Michael Burke‚ the new CEO of LV group is uncertain about whether the group can grow sustainable. The main issue he current encounter is that how to push LV to grow steadily and protect LV’s values and heritage from being undermined. External
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The building selected for this project is the Fisher House In Philadelphia By Louis I. Kahn. It took Kahn seven years and many different designs to complete this work starting from 1960. Though the Fisher House is one of the few private residences designed by Kahn that came to completion‚ it serves as a great instance of his architectural achievements through the underlying stylistic forms and philosophical values. For various reasons such as the recession caused by the second World War and stylistic
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Merit 1 – Compare and Contrast two businesses For this assignment I am going to compare and contrast two selected businesses. I will concentrate on their ownership and their aims and objectives. My first business is Tesco the biggest retail company in Britain. My second business is McDonald’s one of the largest franchise fast food outlets in the world. The aim of McDonald’s is to serve good food in a friendly and fun environment and to provide good returns to their share holders. So the
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Louis Sachar‚ an American writer‚ once wrote‚ “A lot of people don’t believe in curses. A lot of people don’t believe in yellow-spotted lizards either‚ but if one bites you it doesn’t make a difference whether you believe or not” (Sachar 41). The book I read was Holes by Louis Sachar. This book is about a boy‚ named Stanley Yelnats‚ who is ‘cursed’ with bad luck. The ‘curse’ started with Stanley’s no-good pig stealing great great grandfather. During the early parts of the story‚ Stanley is arrested
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Poetry Analysis In the poem Football by Louis Jenkins‚ the author makes a new affiliation between football and life. Jenkins juxtaposes the idea of playing the decision maker on the football field as a quarterback with daily decisions of life. The poem is about a quarterback who has taken the snap from center and now has to make a decision on what his next move is. As he is pondering through his ideas‚ he closely begins to analyze his how his signal calling on the field relates to his judgments
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